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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
socialize
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
socialized medicine
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Many young women believe they have better things to do than socialize single men.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All this happens as the child is gradually subjected to ever more critical attitudes as he is being socialized.
▪ Consider the way you eat, exercise, and socialize when not dieting.
▪ Groups of women working or socializing together are not automatically separatist.
▪ On weekends the Hub buzzes with fellow mountain bikers and outdoor enthusiasts resting and socializing.
▪ They socialize with them, do business with them.
▪ We used to socialize together and they used my garden as their flat didn't have one.
▪ When it matures, we will find that most of the human use is for socializing.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Socialize

Socialize \So"cial*ize\, v. t.

  1. To render social.

  2. To subject to, or regulate by, socialism.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
socialize

1828, "to render social," from social (adj.). Meaning "to be sociable, to mingle" is recorded from 1895. Meaning "to make socialistic" is from 1846. Related: Socialized; socializing. The phrasing in socialized medicine is by 1912.

Wiktionary
socialize

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To interact with others 2 (context transitive English) To instruct somebody, usually subconsciously, in the etiquette of a society 3 (context transitive English) To take something into collective or governmental ownership

WordNet
socialize
  1. v. take part in social activities; interact with others; "He never socializes with his colleagues"; "The old man hates to socialize" [syn: socialise]

  2. train for a social environment; "The children must be properly socialized" [syn: socialise]

  3. prepare for social life; "Children have to be socialized in school" [syn: socialise]

  4. make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies; "Health care should be socialized!" [syn: socialise]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "socialize".

Grant moved that way, knew Meade was there only to see him, not to socialize with his staff.

Eight hundred people could comfortably take their pleasure in the natatorium, bathe in the warm waters believed to have antiaging and aphrodisiac properties, or simply indulge in alcohol and narcotics and socialize with their peers throughout the long and sweltering nights.

Furthermore, the assumption is worth making, in case the traditional American system is breaking down, because a more highly socialized democracy is the only practical substitute on the part of convinced democrats for an excessively individualized democracy.

But even so the traditional democracy still retains its dislike of centralized and socialized responsibility.

A large part of the commonplace life of man, the food-hunt, the shelter-hunt, the safety-hunt, has been lifted out of the individual sphere and socialized for ever.

And if we add to that the necessary maintenance of a money system by a central world authority upon a basis that will make money keep faith with the worker who earns it, and represent from first to last for him the value in staple commodities he was given to understand it was to have, and if we conceive credit adequately controlled in the general interest by a socialized world banking organization, we shall have defined the entire realm from which individual property and unrestricted individual enterprise have been excluded.

Socialist leaders such as Fidel Castro and Mao Tse-tung vastly extended schooling in Cuba and China in part because they knew that an educated people is a socialized populace and a bulwark of allegiance.

We have solved the problem of socializing property, the problem the early twentieth century was unable to solve.

Sociologists have long agreed that schools are important socializing agents in our society.

For almost a century, the Japanese had been socialized to anticipate and accommodate themselves to drastic change.

In the summer, we meet with the River Absarokee, the Black Lodges, and socialize.

But the other classes of premedieval times were, so far as we can discern, greatly restricted both in their opportunities to socialize and in the range of their social contacts.

She could go back to Rehoboth Beach and try a door-to-door canvass of the neighbors, people Steve and Beth might have socialized with, nearby shopkeepers they patronized.

Indeed, the reaction of Debussy from Wagnerism was chiefly the reaction of a profoundly socialized and aristocratic sensibility outraged by over-emphasis and unrestraint.

Individuals in groups formed for these purposes receive all the benefits of Total Mind Power and have the added benefit of meeting and socializing with their friends.